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The topic ESB Dome Positioning - Bespin vs. Hoth brings to mind other places where Vader's helmet looks a bit unusual, or at least different from what we'd normally see. In the scene in ESB just before Vader detaches a large fixture from Cloud City and force-ibly hurls it at Luke, the closeup of Vader looks strange to me:

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I'm thinking it's a mirrored Stunt helmet.

Stunt because both cheeks appear black with the thick Perspex outline.

Mirrored based on the general impression of it's backwards asymmetry (the longer-looking side of the dome on the wrong side, the direction of the droop of the lower lip, the size and shape of the eyes, and the launch point and angle of the start of the eyebrows from the nose bridge).

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